The Sant Antoni 5 apartment in Barcelona is located on the first floor of a classic Barcelona Eixample building with an elevator. The apartment was recently renovated in a modern but eclectic style, with an attractive modern parquet wooden floor thorughout the apartment creating a sense of continuity and space, and conserving original features such as wooden doors and door frames, and the wooden beams in the ceiling.

This apartment has high ceilings and has two bedrooms as well as a double sofa bed in the living room. A balcony with attractive original art nouveau ironwork runs across the front of the apartment, this connects the main double bedroom and the living / dining room, both rooms have lovely double french doors with shutters that open onto the balcony, the perfect way to allow a gentle breeze on a warm summer’s evening. Should you need it in addition, there is air conditioning, and heating for the winter, which is mild in Barcelona.

The living and dining room are open plan, though the living area has a slightly separate space, with attractive wooden beams and an L-shaped sofa bed. For your recreation there is a flat screen TV and a DVD player (plus free Wi-Fi connection). The dining table is in front of the french doors which open to the balcony, so you can enjoy a meal with fresh air coming in.

As well as the main double bedroom there is a second bedroon also with a double bed, and a further single bed.

The kitchen is separate from the living room and comes with absolutely everything you need for self catering barring the food itself, which you can buy in a fantastic Catalan food market nearby (Mercat Sant Antoni) where you can purchase unbeatable fresh vegetables, meat and fish at very affordable prices. There are many other shops and supermarkets nearby too.

Lastly the apartment offers one bathroom with a toilet, bidet, sink and shower.

The Sant Antoni 5 apartment is located in the bustling and lively neighbourhood of Sant Antoni, a neighbourhood with a strong sense of community and focused around its market, situtated just next to the absolute centre of Barcelona – Plaza Catalunya and Las Ramblas are no more then 10 minutes walk away.

The Sant Antoni market is surrounded by lots of excellent restaurants, bakeries, shops and bars – everything you need for self catering is right on your doorstep. The market itself is a historical monument built in classic Catalan art nouveau style. The produce on offer in any of Barcelona’s markets will be among the freshest and best food you will ever buy.

The Raval district lies between Sant Antoni and Las Ramblas. This cosmopolitan city district is where you can find really good cheap restaurants, and the MACBA contemporary art museum, with many old buildings and pedestrian streets and squares to stumble across.

Families and all visitors alike will benefit from the centrality of this apartment, you won’t need to rely on public transport to see the sites of Barcelona at all, but should you need it then there are very good public transport connections nearby. Within 150 meters are two different metro stations: Sant Antoni (line 2) and Poble Sec (line 3), these lines will deliver you to any other area of Barcelona in no more than 10 minutes.